(Updated April 23, 2008) Psychologists say Barbora Škrlová, the 33-year-old woman who has been posing as a 13-year-old child, is mentally sound, Mladá fronta Dnes wrote on Wednesday.
They also say she is not a victim of sexual abuse and that she lies, the newspaper reported after obtaining a report to be presented in court about her.
"Experts have noted several inconsistencies in her testimonies to be deliberate and consider her to be untrustworthy," psychologists and psychiatrists wrote in the report.
Škrlová is prone to over-dramatizing, according to the report. She wants to be the center of attention, she tries to manipulate others and she has sado-masochistic tendencies, but she is not mentally ill, the report said.
Škrlová first posed as a 13-year-old girl, Anička, and later sparked an international search when she escaped to Norway, where she posed as a 13-year old boy, Adam. She may be prosecuted for her involvement in the infamous Kuřím child abuse case in which two boys were allegedly mistreated by their mother.
The woman even had her schoolteachers convinced that she was a boy until an anonymous phone call notified Czech investigators of her whereabouts, and she returned to the Czech Republic last year. Since then, she has had various psychiatric evaluations while in police custody.
Škrlová claims that she has been abused and tortured by various masked people so that she will feel and behave like a 13-year-old child.
"I guess they wanted to sell me to bad men who do terrible things to children," she told a Mladá fronta Dnes reporter in an earlier interview.
However, "it is highly unlikely that a person of average intelligence, which the accused is, would allow herself to be manipulated in such a manner, unless she agreed with the manipulation," the report said.
Škrlová appears to be able able to slip in and out of her childish role as the situation demands, according to the report.
In fact, Škrlová, herself, is accused of child abuse. Psychologists say that she manipulated Klara Mauerová to the point of abusing her own sons, Ondřej and Jakub in order to "drive out evil from them."
Škrlová faces an eight-year jail sentence if convicted.
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